Search results for "political elections"

Mexican Americans in the New York Times : a study of proposition 187 in California

2002

Using crowdsourcing for a safer society: When the crowd rules

2020

Neighbours sharing information about robberies in their district through social networking platforms, citizens and volunteers posting about the irregularities of political elections on the Internet, and internauts trying to identify a suspect of a crime: in all these situations, people who share different degrees of relationship collaborate through the Internet and other technologies to try to help with or solve an offence. The crowd, which is sometimes seen as a threat, in these cases becomes an invaluable resource that can complement law enforcement through collective intelligence. Owing to the increasing growth of such initiatives, this article conducts a systematic review of the litera…

Probing Public Opinion: the State of Valencia Experience

1997

This paper summarizes the procedures which have been set up during the last years at the Government of the State of Valencia, Spain, to systematically probe its public opinion as an important input into its decision processes.

Bayesian Estimation of Political Transition Matrices

1994

A decision framework is used to propose a procedure designed to estimate the reallocation of the vote of each individual party between two consecutive political elections, given the results of the elections, the information provided by a sample survey, and some assumptions on the hierarchical structure of the population.